Oscar Wilde at 150
A Legend in the Making

October 22–23, 2004– at the Clark Library


Friday, October 22_______________________

9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10:00 a.m. —  
Welcome Remarks
               Joseph Bristow, UCLA

Session One–

Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware
Oscar Gives Himself Away: Reading Wilde’s Presentation Copies

Daniel Novak, Louisiana State University
Sexuality in the Age of Technological Reproducibility: Oscar Wilde, Photography, and Identity

12:15 p.m. – Lunch
2:00 p.m. — Session Two—

Lucy McDiarmid, Villanova University
Oscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, and the Late-Victorian Dinner Party


Leslie J. Moran, Birkbeck College, University of London
Oscar Wilde: A Courtroom Drama


Yvonne Ivory, Duke University
Creating Oskar: Wilde’s Legacy for the Early Homosexual Rights Movement in Germany

5:00 p.m. – Reception

Saturday, October 23_____________________

9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10:00 a.m.— Session 3 —
 

Richard A. Kaye, Hunter College, City University of New York
St. Sebastian, Salomé, and the Myths of Decadence

Erin Williams Hyman, UCLA
Salomé as Bombshell, or How Oscar Wilde Became an Anarchist

Julie Townsend, University of Southern California
Staking Salomé: Choreographic Challenges to Wilde’s 'Hysterical and Perverted Creature'

1:00 p.m. – Lunch
2:00 p.m. — Session Four—

Matt Cook, University of Keele
Wilde Lives? Gay Diaries in the Twentieth Century


Oliver S. Buckton, Florida Atlantic University
Oscar Goes to Hollywood: (Re)Fashioning Wilde in Contemporary Cinema


S.I. Salamensky, UCLA
Wilde Words Today



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